"Boring! We keep doing the same stuff.
"How'd you like to teach other students to write iPhone apps?
"Awesome!
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"Wait right there.
I fetched the Departmental Secretary. Here was an opportunity to get going with what I'd proposed. Excited, he summoned his Innovation Chief saying "I want to start on this tomorrow!"
The next year I asked Ben how things had gone. I still have his reply: "Nothing really went anywhere with my school, didn't really surprise me".
The STEM agenda could handsomely enrich our future, but only if it's part of wider transformation which, though it would cost nothing, offers a richer prize than any amount of new STEM funding.
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